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Why Smithers Was Originally Black on ‘The Simpsons’

November 18, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

Via CinemaBlend:

He was always yellow, and then they painted him wrong once. That’s all…At the time, we didn’t have enough money to do retakes, so when there were glitches and mistakes, they stayed that way.”

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